In an arrangement of Debussy's Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra Leleux's cor anglais playing made this version seem like the original, the instrument's
plangency and melancholy melting into colourful exoticism (shades of Images).
And that has more
plangency because of what we've seen before.
He rarely indulges in
plangency and is as sparing with his emotional effects as he is generous with his melodic and rhythmic effects.
The melody she creates is in a minor key, sonorous, charged with
plangency. One can imagine how many things she is juggling inside her headthe meditation on her assigned topic, the succession of words to rhyme, the matching of sentence to song and the melody she sings a capella.
Oppenheimer's staggering film achieves no such
plangency, much as it attempts to shift from an often callously ironic tone to a graver and more nuanced approach, fashioning a redemptive narrative for Anwar, who gradually relinquishes his role as metteur en scene for that of martyr.
His early work is marred by over-reliance on capitalised abstractions such as Death, Love, Time, Beauty, and by sub-Yeatsian
plangency, but shows also a remarkable lyric strain, which deepened throughout his short life" (4).
It is not obsessive, or if it is, it is an obsession we share: the repetition makes us feel that we are being located, steadied" And in contrast with the Eighth, in which repetition "is used in the service of memory and profundity, like the tolling of a bell or the
plangency of voices in a round," she says, "in the fragmentary Ninth, it is not used in the service of anything; it just sits there, a thing in itself, squashing the music with its implacable force.
This last is a riveting performance--especially in one spine-tingling moment of pure theatre, when Prudence suddenly turns and speaks with force and
plangency for all the downtrodden menials of this country.
And therefore in the Calypso, there isn't much of that
plangency and sorrow and wrong that comes out of that suffering and the measure of that suffering, which is a very heavy down beat.
The non-verbal sounds of a post-Darwinian cosmos of universal
plangency, (13) to which the speaker directs us to attend, are like the shadow of the Medusa in "Aspecta Medusa," mysterious signs of an existential condition that is indifferent to human hope and aspiration.
On the debit side, string instrument-reliant score by Eicca Toppinen overeggs the pudding with too-insistent
plangency. Result undermines script's occasional flinty sparks of humor, which might have been an extra redeeming feature.